“You hate me?”
“I don’t know. Father wouldn’t like us to hate anybody.”
“Where’s Helen?”
“And Polly?”
“Polly is in bed. She’s ill, too, but not in danger, like father. The doctor says that Polly is not to know about father for at any rate a day, so please be careful not to mention this to her, Flower.”
“No fear!”
“Polly is suffering a good deal, but she’s not unhappy, for she doesn’t know about father.”
“Is baby very ill, too?”
“No. Nurse says that baby has escaped quite wonderfully. She was laughing when I saw her last. She has only a little cold.”